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...combat gender-related insensitivity, Light encouraged Business School faculty to attend a seminar on unconscious bias given by psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this spring, and the school’s annual Christensen Center Colloquium—which helps faculty learn how to teach the case method—will highlight gender issues this fall...
According to Gen Ed Committee member and Psychology Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, one of the goals of the Gen Ed committee is encouraging faculty to think about “non-traditional” methods of teaching...
Though psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji said she had not heard of the program, she quipped in an e-mail that “the program indeed sounds like bliss to me given the struggle we face finding summer research support for our concentrators each year...
...theory of racism. Researchers have long known that people hold culturally instilled associations with certain objects - English-speaking North Americans are faster to recognize the word butter if they have just seen the word bread momentarily flashed on a screen (ditto soy and rice for East Asians). Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji has found that Americans recognize negative words such as angry, criminal and poor more quickly after being exposed to a black face (often blacks do too), suggesting unconscious racist associations with black people...
Fifteen-year-old Mahzarin R. Banaji says she dreamed of living the adventurous life of a secretary upon graduating from high school because she believed that further academic pursuit was useless and was thirsting for an independent life away from her home in Secunderabad, India...